Knitting Bowl

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The Knitting Bowl (also called a Yarn Bowl) is part of the knitting system. It can store knitting yarn inside of it, similar to other "in-ators". Identical yarn will be bundled together. Unlike with hand-bundled skeins of yarn which have a bundle limit of 100 rows, yarn stored inside a bowl can reach a bundled size of 200 rows.

Tier 2 Knitting Bowls can also store one pair of knitting needles inside. At Tier 3, unscripted clothing and bolts of fabric can be placed inside to create custom yarn, provided that the fabric type is among those on the acceptable materials list. A pincushion can be placed inside the bowl to store it and any Darning Awls contained within. Pincushions are stored as a second item for the purposes of lockering, unlike the yarn and needles.

Knitting Bowls were first released in 2022 at Rumor Woods and sold in the Purls of Wisdom shop alongside other knitting supplies.

Tier 1

At Tier 1, the Knitting Bowl can store up to 24 skeins of yarn.

Analyze

The Knitting Bowl!

Designed to store 24 skeins of yarn, the bowl is easy to use:

1.  PUT YARN IN BOWL (store your yarn)
2.  GAZE my BOWL (view stored yarn)
3.  GLANCE my BOWL (view only the upper most yarn)
4.  SPIN my BOWL (cycle other yarn to the top)
5.  TINKER with my BOWL (pull yarn back out of bowl)

A curl-edged knitting bowl resembling fused lotus blossoms is 1 out of 3 Tiers.

Alterations: It must remain some kind of bowl, but can have a vessel-like noun.  It should be made of a reasonable material and remain lightweight.  As it will have painted lines within it when you add yarn, you may wish it to be a lighter color on the inside.

Usage

Verb First Third
GAZE You gaze into a curl-edged knitting bowl resembling fused lotus blossoms, noting various lines of color and tiny, intricate markings. They reveal to you that the bowl houses the following items:

[Numbered list of yarn inside, including yarn descriptor, color/material, and quantity (rows).] 		N/A
List all yarn currently inside the bowl. Each yarn type will display its descriptor (if one is set), its color/material, and its quantity (rows). Permified yarn will have "infinite rows".
GLANCE You quickly glance at a curl-edged knitting bowl resembling fused lotus blossoms, noting that a cream angora band is at the top. You are suddenly filled with the knowledge that a minor amount of tinkering will let you retrieve the yarn from the bowl. N/A
Preview how the selected yarn will appear if removed. If a descriptor is set on a Tier 3 bowl, it will be included in the preview.
PUT {PINCUSHION} IN BOWL You toss a round black linen pincushion into your knitting bowl; it almost slides right out but gently rocks into the bottom. Person tosses a round black linen pincushion into her knitting bowl; it glides across the smooth surface and almost right out.
PUT {YARN} IN BOWL You toss a skein of gradient violet heather yarn into the bowl, watching as it slowly becomes transparent. A moment later, a new gradient violet heather line appears along the wall of the bowl's interior. Person tosses a skein of gradient violet heather yarn into her knitting bowl, causing it to disappear from sight.
SPIN You spin the bowl around, causing the cream angora painted line within to spiral to a new position further down the bowl. This moves gradient violet heather to the top. Person spins her knitting bowl around.
Cycle to select the next yarn in the list.
TINKER Tinkering with your knitting bowl, you manipulate the magic around it with ease and cause it to manifest a skein of gradient violet heather yarn within it. Once it is fully formed, you easily pluck the yarn out. Tinkering with her knitting bowl, Person manipulates it for a few moments, causing a skein of gradient violet heather yarn to manifest within. Once it is fully formed, she easily plucks the yarn out.
Remove the currently selected yarn.

Tier 2

Tier 2 allows the Knitting Bowl to store a pair of knitting needles along with the yarn. It can be WHISPERed at to select a specific yarn stored inside.

Analyze

Designed to store 24 skeins of yarn, the bowl is easy to use:

1.  PUT YARN IN BOWL (store your yarn)
2.  GAZE my BOWL (view stored yarn)
3.  GLANCE my BOWL (view only the upper most yarn)
4.  SPIN my BOWL (cycle other yarn to the top)
5.  TINKER with my BOWL (pull yarn back out of bowl)
6.  PUSH a pair of needles into the BOWL (stores a single set of knitting needles
7.  PULL a pair of stored needles out of the BOWL (retrieves stored needles)
8.  TWIST my BOWL (play with it)
9.  WHISPER my BOWL COLOR # (shuffle a specific color to the top)

A curl-edged knitting bowl resembling fused lotus blossoms is 2 out of 3 Tiers.
Verb First Third
LOOK Secured by a thin strap, some witchwood knitting needles culminating in viridian-flamed arathiel fireflies rests at an angle within the bowl. N/A
See if needles are stored inside.
PULL You lightly pluck your witchwood needles from the confines of a curl-edged knitting bowl resembling fused lotus blossoms. Person lightly plucks some witchwood knitting needles culminating in viridian-flamed arathiel fireflies from the confines of her knitting bowl.
PUSH You gently lower your witchwood needles into your knitting bowl, causing a thin strap to materialize and secure them in place. Person gently lowers her witchwood needles into her knitting bowl.
TWIST You gaze into your knitting bowl, twisting it this way and that as you contempate your next knitting project. Person gazes into her knitting bowl, twisting it contemplatively back and forth.
WHISPER BOWL COLOR {#} You whisper quietly to the bowl, causing cream angora yarn to shimmer and reappear further down the vessel's inner wall. A moment later, gradient violet heather appears in its place. N/A
Select a specific yarn, using its number from the GAZE list.

Tier 3

A Tier 3 Knitting Bowl can make yarn out of fabric inserted into it. It can also provide additional descriptors for the yarn produced, which it refers to as "pronouns" in the analyze. Default yarn customizations that come with this tier include: coarse, frayed, fuzzy, gradient, knotted, lightweight, lustrous, shiny, soft, thick, thin, and winterweight. The Knitting Bowl may store up to eight more yarn custom descriptors beyond that list. WHISPER is expanded to allow easy changes between yarn descriptor options.

For a detailed explanation on how descriptors impact yarn and knitting projects, see Choosing Your Yarn on the main knitting system article.

Analyze

The Knitting Bowl!

Designed to store 24 skeins of yarn, the bowl is easy to use:

1.  PUT YARN IN BOWL (store your yarn)
2.  GAZE my BOWL (view stored yarn)
3.  GLANCE my BOWL (view only the upper most yarn)
4.  SPIN my BOWL (cycle other yarn to the top)
5.  TINKER with my BOWL (pull yarn back out of bowl)
6.  PUSH a pair of needles into the BOWL (stores a single set of knitting needles
7.  PULL a pair of stored needles out of the BOWL (retrieves stored needles)
8.  TWIST my BOWL (play with it)
9.  WHISPER my BOWL COLOR # (shuffle a specific color to the top)
10. FEED my BOWL a piece of fabric to create dyeable yarn.  Acceptable materials are: alpaca, angora, aneula, Aldoran wool, bamboo, bresuna, buckram, cameline, captiql, cavelta, chainsil, chenille, cotton, dagswain, fraelhan, flannel, flax, fleece, gossamer, heather, inytela, jute, krinklevelt, lamb's wool, lambilen, linen, maedatha, malghavan wool, merino wool, mohair, moreen, myssamere, oiremere, oxilen, paeline, pashmina, plumille, qiviut, ramie linen, roltalen, rolton wool, ruhani wool, rackhal, sailcloth, flyrsilk, lotus silk, ramie silk, raw silk, sea silk, spidersilk, starsilk, silk, stoutfoot wool, tartan, tweed, vaslavilen, vicuna, vylith, vylithen, wild silk, woolen, wool, wylten, wynelen, yierkale, and yierka wool.
11. NUDGE my BOWL (cycle through yarn pronouns)
12. READ my BOWL (see a list of pronoun options = 12 Default, 8 Custom)
13. WHISPER my BOWL PRONOUN # (shuffle through pronoun options by #)

*  PROD will let you toggle if you want your unlimited yarn to be modified on retrieval.
It is currently set off, meaning the yarn will be retrieved using the specialized bowl settings.

A curl-edged knitting bowl resembling fused lotus blossoms is 3 out of 3 Tiers.

Alterations: It must remain some kind of bowl, but can have a vessel-like noun.  It should be made of a reasonable material and remain lightweight.  As it will have painted lines within it when you add yarn, you may wish it to be a lighter color on the inside.

Customs: You may ask a merchant to add 2 customizations each visit.  You can not go beyond 8.  All customizations cannot be longer than 15 characters.
Verb Option First Third
FEED Feeding a bolt of silk to a curl-edged knitting bowl resembling fused lotus blossoms will destroy the silk to create a skein of silk yarn. If this is correct, FEED the bowl again within the next 30 seconds.

You feed a bolt of silk into the knitting bowl, watching as swirls of color overtake the silk. As the colorful display fades, a skein of silk yarn appears in the space the silk once occupied. With ease, you pluck the yarn from the confines of the bowl. 		Person feeds a bolt of silk into her knitting bowl, causing a colorful transformation to take place. As the colorful display fades, Person plucks a skein of silk yarn from where the silk once rested.
Create yarn from unscripted fabric or clothing with an appropriate material type..
NUDGE Running your fingers over the top of the bowl, you watch as the lines within change from "lustrous" to "shiny." N/A
Cycle the to the next descriptor.
READ You flip over the bowl and notice a list of options:

[List of yarn descriptor options.]

You can either NUDGE the bowl to cycle through the options, or WHISPER the PRONOUN # to the bowl to set the pronoun of your choice. 		N/A
Display a list of all default and custom yarn descriptors ("pronouns").
TINKER No descriptor set You are about to pull yarn from the bowl with the pronoun none. This means that the bowl will default to the pronoun already on the yarn and pull out the gradient violet heather yarn. If this is correct, TINKER with the bowl again within the next 30 seconds.

Tinkering with your knitting bowl, you manipulate the magic around it with ease and cause it to manifest a skein of gradient violet heather yarn within it. Once it is fully formed, you easily pluck the yarn out. 		Tinkering with her knitting bowl, Person manipulates it for a few moments, causing a skein of gradient violet heather yarn to manifest within. Once it is fully formed, she easily plucks the yarn out.
Descriptor set You are about to pull yarn from the bowl with the pronoun lustrous. This means that the bowl will pull the stored lustrous violet heather yarn out. If you do not want that, then WHISPER MY BOWL NONE to clear it or PROD the bowl to turn off default. Otherwise, if this is correct, TINKER with the bowl again within the next 30 seconds.

Tinkering with your knitting bowl, you manipulate the magic around it with ease and cause it to manifest a skein of lustrous violet heather yarn within it. Once it is fully formed, you easily pluck the yarn out. 		Tinkering with her knitting bowl, Person manipulates it for a few moments, causing a skein of lustrous violet heather yarn to manifest within. Once it is fully formed, she easily plucks the yarn out.
Remove the selected yarn and apply the set yarn descriptor to it. This will overwrite any previous descriptor unless the bowl is set to "none".
WHISPER NONE You have decided to clear out your pronoun field when retrieving yarn. It will default to stored type. N/A
PRONOUN {#} You murmur softly about your thoughts on yarn and in response, the lines within your knitting bowl change from being "none" to "lustrous." N/A
Choose a yarn descriptor directly, using its number in the READ list. Clear the set descriptor with "none".

Additional Information

Yarn Descriptors

A Tier 3 bowl can add a descriptor to yarn when it is removed from it. The bowl calls these descriptors "pronouns", even though they really aren't pronouns. If the yarn had a different descriptor prior to removing it, the new descriptor will overwrite the old one. It is impossible to revert the yarn back to its old descriptor unless it is an option available on the bowl (or you get it altered). There are 12 preset descriptors. An additional 8 custom descriptors can be added by a merchant. READ lists the descriptors available. 

You flip over the bowl and notice a list of options:

             ~*~  Yarn Pronoun Options ~*~ 
     /    1.  coarse   2.  frayed   3.  fuzzy    \
    / 4.  gradient   5.  knotted  6.  lightweight \
   / 7.  lustrous  8.  shiny   9. soft  10.  thick \
  /             11.  thin  12. winterweight         \
 *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
  \               ~*~ Your Customs ~*~              /
   \ 13. none    14.  none    15.  none
    \ 16. none    17.  none    18. none
     \        19. none      20. none
      ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
You can either NUDGE the bowl to cycle through the options, or WHISPER the PRONOUN # to the bowl to set the pronoun of your choice.

Using WHISPER BOWL NONE will clear the currently set descriptor. When "none" is set, the yarn pulled out of the bowl will not have its current descriptor changed. In addition, if it currently does not have one set, no new descriptor will be added.

Once any descriptor has been added to a skein of yarn, it cannot be removed via the yarn bowl.

Using GLANCE BOWL will preview how the currently selected yarn will be removed from the bowl. If a descriptor has been set, it will be included with the preview.

For a detailed explanation on how descriptors impact yarn and knitting projects, see Choosing Your Yarn on the main knitting system article.

Making Yarn

A Tier 3 bowl can craft knitting yarn from unscripted fabric or clothing items placed inside. The cloth items must be from the acceptable materials, which is previewed in the bowl's ANALYZE.

Acceptable materials are: alpaca, angora, aneula, Aldoran wool, bamboo, bresuna, buckram, cameline, captiql, cavelta, chainsil, chenille, cotton, dagswain, fraelhan, flannel, flax, fleece, gossamer, heather, inytela, jute, krinklevelt, lamb's wool, lambilen, linen, maedatha, malghavan wool, merino wool, mohair, moreen, myssamere, oiremere, oxilen, paeline, pashmina, plumille, qiviut, ramie linen, roltalen, rolton wool, ruhani wool, rackhal, sailcloth, flyrsilk, lotus silk, ramie silk, raw silk, sea silk, spidersilk, starsilk, silk, stoutfoot wool, tartan, tweed, vaslavilen, vicuna, vylith, vylithen, wild silk, woolen, wool, wylten, wynelen, yierkale, and yierka wool.

Bolts of cotton, linen, silk, spidersilk, and wool sold at Maellyn's Fabrics work with the bowl to make yarn. Other speciality shops may have bolts of fabric that work similarly. Not all treasure system clothing works with the bowl, even when an acceptable material is part of the clothing's description. Bolts of fabric that are designed for cobbling do not work as they are scripted to work with the cobbling system.

To make yarn, simply FEED BOWL while holding both it and the cloth item. The cloth item is destroyed in the process, and the crafted yarn is placed in the same hand. If a yarn descriptor is set on the bowl, it will be applied to the yarn crafted as part of this process. Bolts of fabric yield yarn skeins capable of knitting 15 rows.

See Also
Knitting Bowl Information
Type Fluff
Crafting
Item Classification Miscellaneous
Item(s) Applied to Yarn bowl
Alterable Yes
Light/Deep No
Customizable Yes
Custom Tier 3: 8 yarn descriptors
Original Release Venue Rumor Woods
Original Release Year 2022
Tiered Yes
Number of Tiers 3
How to Unlock Certificate
Corresponding Item Scripts Knitting yarn
Knitting needles
Pincushion
Restrictions Must remain some type of bowl. See analyze for full restrictions.
Item Verbs
FEED GAZE GLANCE NUDGE
PULL PUSH PUT READ
SPIN TINKER TWIST WHISPER
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